How To Use buy time In A Sentence
- An agency's financial status is measured in terms of billings - monies allocated by an advertiser to its agency to buy time on television and/or radio or space in publications.
- Those few brave souls, trying to buy time for their families to flee with their lives, were quickly cut down or overrun by the scores of humanoids that ran wildly through the streets.
- But quick cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, from bystanders or race participants also likely played a role since it can buy time until victims are defibrillated. Runners' Heart Risks Seen as Overblown
- Dos Santos also repeated his accusation that Savimbi had used previous peace accords to buy time while he rearmed his troops.
- Each time European policymakers reacted similarly: with denial and dithering, followed at the eleventh hour with a half-baked rescue plan to buy time.
- Looking to buy time until I could think about what “pastorly” advice to give him, I asked him to explain his predicament to me once more, trying to discern if what he was experiencing was just a spiritual dry spell or if depression itself was beginning to take over every area of his life. God Attachment
- The keyhole procedure allowed us to buy time and to let her grow a little before the major operation. The Sun
- Hoping to buy time, USAMRIID and the CDC had ordered all first responders to be treated with hyperimmune antirabies serum. Blowback
- So it's a weird, nonsensical cartoon, the kind of dada-ist, surreal stuff that abounded in the mid-'90s before networks realized that advertisers didn't want to buy time on "kids" shows that weren't actually comprehensible to kids. Archive 2008-02-01
- Until then, availability of super-computers was limited to military researchers and others who could afford to buy time on them.
